Thursday, September 09, 2004

Life as a Bonus Whore

So I'm a little hooked on bonus whoring these days. It's a bit silly, granted, but it's hard to turn down free money. And the wonders of Neteller makes it pretty dang easy to shuffle funds around, so, you know, why not...

I started on my first Crypto site yesterday, signing up at InterPoker. I'm pretty pleased so far, as the 1/2 and 2/4 games I played in were really, really soft. I played a few MTT tournaments and again, pretty terrible play. The software is so-so and the play is pretty slow, but apparently a lot of the poker traffic is from the online casino attached to InterPoker, so the skill level is pretty dang low. BonusWhores.com gives them terrible marks as far as support and customer service but, knock on wood, I haven't had any issues so far. It's also interesting as they occasionally pay you to play as a prop when they open new tables, so I picked up an extra $10 yesterday sitting at a 2/4 table for awhile. The bonus clears pretty quickly, $1 for every 5 raked hands, and they currently match at 100%, up to $90 (deposit 90$ or more, get $90 in bonus money). So yeah, so far so good. Thumbs up.

Any fellow bonus whores should also check out a new casino that's opening, Check n Raise Poker.com. It's not live yet but they're running a pre-registration bonus special right now. If you pre-register by October 10th, you qualify for a 50% bonus, up to $150, when they do go live. You also get entered in a 10K freeroll if you're among the first 1000 to pre-register, and other smaller freerolls. Doesn't cost a penny to pre-register or obligate you in any way. The site could turn out to be craptastic but hey, you never know. My screenname there is "scurvydog" if you need a screenmae referral when you pre-register in order to get the extra referral overlay bonus they're offering.